"In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction."

-- Robert Herrick

#Giving Quotes #Action Quotes #Vain Quotes

“The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it's selling.”
“I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it?”
“Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.”
“Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.”
“This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.”
“I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.”

Source : BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”
“Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly historyâ€™s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.”
“If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.”

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